What was once a $500 package of pro photo editing software is now completely free. The high-end Nik Collection of photo editing tools, which was priced down to $149 after being acquired by Google in 2012, is now available for download by everyone.

“As we continue to focus our long-term investments in building incredible photo editing tools for mobile, including Google Photos and Snapseed, we’ve decided to make the Nik Collection desktop suite available for free,” Google announced on Mar. 24. Those who have already paid for the software in 2016 will get their money back.

The editing suite includes seven applications overall, including a tool to apply filters and adjust color and brightness, a tool specifically for editing images in black and white, and a tool for giving images better definition. It also includes a nifty “spot” editing feature, which lets you apply effects selectively by choosing specific parts of an image…

Source: Google just made its $149 professional photo editing software free – Quartz